Recalbox as an application

[LuigiPuzo]

I've been willing to run Recalbox on Ubuntu desktop for a while.

• It run successfully inside VirtualBox, inside Gnome Boxes it did not work (but I didn't troubleshoot it well) but it ran bit too choppy for me to enjoy.
• Compiling it didn't work well either; I needed to download so many runtimes and things that it completely defeated the purpose of it.

And I'd like to know;
Is there an AppImage, Docker container, Flatpak or Snap of Recalbox which I can run inside a Linux Distrubution?
Or, How can I make an appimage of the Recalbox so I can run it on Linux desktop?
(edit)
Or, Can I extract the files from the image and run it with chroot or other suggestion so I can just "install" it in Ubuntu ?

[Nazgulh]

recalbox is not a application is a operating system.
so it's impossible tu run recalbox on any Os.

[LuigiPuzo]

@Nazgulh

I'm looking for help to compile this:
https://gitlab.com/recalbox/recalbox-emulationstation

However, there are some dependencies missing:

CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:438 (message):
  The package name passed to `find_package_handle_standard_args` (SDLMIXER)
  does not match the name of the calling package (SDL2MIXER).  This can lead
  to problems in calling code that expects `find_package` result variables
  (e.g., `_FOUND`) to follow a certain pattern.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  CMake/Packages/FindSDL2MIXER.cmake:49 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  CMakeLists.txt:57 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

CMake Warning (dev) at /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:438 (message):
  The package name passed to `find_package_handle_standard_args` (PkgConfig)
  does not match the name of the calling package (PulseAudio).  This can lead
  to problems in calling code that expects `find_package` result variables
  (e.g., `_FOUND`) to follow a certain pattern.
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.22/Modules/FindPkgConfig.cmake:99 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  CMake/Packages/FindPulseAudio.cmake:30 (include)
  CMakeLists.txt:60 (find_package)
This warning is for project developers.  Use -Wno-dev to suppress it.

Do you have experience in compiling things on Linux?
I like Recalbox a lot more than the other EmulationStation that runs on Raspberry Pi/PC and others (that one I can compile following the instructions but Recalbox didn't work because of some missing dependencies.)

[luztolen1126]

Since recalbox is an operating system, it will not run as a standalone app like RetroPie. Instead, you must connect the device to a monitor and use (usually an original) controller connected to the actual device to play games. This can be thought of in many ways as turning a modern gaming console into a retro video game console.